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Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor.
Carl Grant died almost six months after being body-slammed by police. His death was among more than 1,000 over a decade that an Associated Press investigation documented after police used
Carl Grant got confused driving to supermarket in Conyers, Georgia, and ended up at a stranger's door in Birmingham, Alabama, who called police when he tried to get inside.
When Carl Grant, a Georgia veteran with dementia, woke up in the hospital and couldn't move, he thought he had been paralyzed in the Vietnam War. He had no idea just two hours before he had been body-slammed by an officer in Alabama. Now, he's dead.
When Carl Grant awoke from emergency surgery and couldn’t move, he apologized to family gathered around his hospital bed.